If you love turning trash into treasure, especially when it involves filling the pantry, broadening the food menu, home decorating, natural cleaning ideas, nourishing bath and body care recipes, home remedies and so forth-- then this book is for you. All the do-it-yourself projects revolve frugally around the foundation of fruit scraps that you would generally throw away!

What makes this DIY Ebook a bit different than most is that none of the recipes require the use of expensive essential oils (though they could be added to enhance some of the recipes--if you desire). All the products are made from scratch by tapping into the beneficial properties of the powerful fruit peels! As you have always heard (and now know) that there are more vitamins in the peel than the actual fruit, you will be gleaning the gold in these recipes!

The other neat part is that all of the shelf-stable projects come with matching labels. This makes it an ideal book for gift giving ideas as well! At least 100 of the recipes are shared with a full color photograph of each product.

After preparing pies, jams, fruit sauces and such, you are left with a heaping pile of peels and scraps. Though the chickens, livestock and compost pile may enjoy them, the prospect of filling your pantry shelves, medicine chest and bathroom cabinet instead may be a bit more exciting! If you feel strongly toward our Depression Era ancestors, then the wise saying, “waste not, want not” certainly resonates within you. With this in mind, our little project book is directed toward you, the one who sees a peel as potential and a scrap as an opportunity!

I am sure you have also heard many times in your life that it is the peel that contains all the vitamins. This is true in many cases and we will be gleaning all those beneficial properties in our recipes!

"Embellishing the Home" RecipesFeaturing a variety of projects to bring natural beauty and fragrance to your home such ashandmade potpourries, fragrant sachets and room sprays.

You will notice that the frugal projects shared in this book showcase many citrus fruits. I consider their varied uses a blessing! They are in season in the winter when many of our gardens have gone to sleep, and extra time is on our valuable homemaking and homesteading hands. You have permission to be creative and productive while hibernating in your cozy home! There are also many other projects included that are focused on summer and spring produce as well which will give you plenty of DIY pleasure all year round.

You will also notice that many expensive health supplements you may be purchasing can be produced for pennies! We go directly to the pure source, the peel, and find our home apothecary has increased (and with very little funds).

"The Medicine Cabinet" Home Remedies

Featuring a selection of home remedies and food supplements for your health such asmedicinal and protective oil blends, salves, tonics, booster powders, immune support products, etc.

In addition to the easy-to-make projects, we also include matching labels (when they pertain) that can turn an ordinary item into a lovely gift! Or, they can simply enhance your own pantry and powder room shelves.

Ingredients were carefully chosen in this e-book to reflect the most basic items we needed to accomplish the recipe properly while maintaining a budget. This means there are no recipes requiring expensive essential oils or a very random ingredient that you would never use again. If there is a rare item on our list, rest assured it will be used in at least a handful of our recipes (glycerin comes to mind here) to make the purchase worthwhile.

Final Chapter: "Miscellaneous Uses for Popular Fruits"

Featuring a variety of creative ways to use the most common fruit scraps.

There is also a section in many of the tutorials that give you ideas for when you are “feeling frugal” such as how to recycle items to make the project for pennies. We also share a “feeling fancy” idea, which can include luxurious additions such as essential oils and herbs. However, each project is first shared with the frugal foundational recipe in mind. For those that think that frugal can’t be fancy, I do hope this little publication gives you a change of heart.

Happy kitchen-crafting,

JES

* To see a sample of our Ebook recipes and to get your set of free printable tabs, VISIT HERE! *

44 comments:

Jes, so happy to have stumbled upon your blog site with a link that was on the Nerdy Farm wife blog! I just ordered your Ebook,but too late realized I should have (meant to), clicked on her affiliate link to buy the Ebook. I hope you can give her the credit for my purchase.I adore your blog and what you're about :)Blessings, Heather

JES, I purchased your ebook through Paypal yesterday (10/2) and PP did not redirect me back to your site to download, and I did not get a receipt with access to download. Can you help me out? Thanks, email luthcon-jag@yahoo.com

Hi Paula, thank you for the interest in our Ebook! From what I was reading on the hosting website, you may be able to purchase through Paypal WITHOUT a paypal account via a credit card in some instances. It may be worth a try... If not, you can email me at pleasewritetojes@hotmail.com and we can see if we can work something out... Hope this helps! Love, JES :)

I too would have preferred a hard copy book as opposed to the Ebook I purchased. I'm the old-fashioned type who likes a book on the counter to look at for directions. I don't think I will print it using my printer, as it would likely use tons of ink. I'm wondering if I could go to a Print shop and have them print it from my download, for a reasonable amount...I'll look into it.

Hmmm.. that is good to know. It just seemed too expensive to self-publish a book with that many full color pictures. I also thought that with the labels, the eBook gives more convenience for individual printing. But I too usually also prefer a hard copy! I did take a flash drive with the file to the local printer shop and had a copy bound because of that very thing! I don't know that there will be a next time but if so, I will look further into a hard copy. Or perhaps if I ever expand the book, I can do so with a hard copy offer as well. Thank you so much for sharing your feedback. I really appreciate it :)

Hi Heather, the local printer's shop charged $17 for a black and white bound copy... Another reader mentioned she just printed the whole thing on her printer. I really don't know what is less expensive. For kicks, after our last "conversation", I plugged in the numbers on the Amazon print shop and the book would cost $20 to print NOT counting fees, royalties, etc.. It would have been quite pricy once all was said and done to do it independently. Probably around $35 and who is going to pay that? I sure wouldn't! :) In the meantime, I think the Ebook format is the frugalist option... Let me know what you end up doing and how it turned out! :)

Hi Sue! Thank you for your interest! It just seemed that with the color photographs, it would be too expensive to do a print version. I do know that some of the ladies are printing them and binding them which is what I am planning to do also for my daughter and myself. So sorry about that! That would have been fun!!! :)

i'm not sure if anyone else has had this problem. i am trying to purchase the e-book and i make it all the way to where i enter my paypal password. then it says logging into paypal and the whole right side of the screen goes blank. i can see my order summary on the left side, but there is no button to complete the purchase. what should i do???

Hi there! This is a new problem and seems to be either a computer or paypal glitch? No one else has complained of it. Perhaps reboot the computer and try again later. I am sure it will work again in the next 24 hours. If it takes longer, I will still honor the discount and refund you if you end up paying the full price. Just send an email my way explaining @ pleasewritetojes@hotmail.com so that I know. Hope this helps! :)

Thanks Jes - just bought the book, it's fantastic. I signed up through the affiliate program and sent you a message through your selling site. Please let me know if you didn't get it. Thanks again for sharing your wealth of knowledge. I can't wait to delve into these resources. ~ Abby

I'm not a crafty person by any means but I'm seriously considering buying this book. I'm much like one of the other readers who likes to have a book on the counter for a reference and just add to my collection :-) I love these ideas for using leftover food scraps being Frugal. Love it love it love it! :-)

Hi Gwen! Thank you for your interest and kind comment! I appreciate it very much! :) Also, no need to be crafty for this book, I certainly am not! But I do love to make things from nothing for my home and pretty them up... That sums up the book in many ways! Have a wonderful week!

I just bought the e-book, but I'm a tactile sort of person. Really wish you had this available in a printed version. Love it even still. I'm hoping I could get this printed as a book at somewhere like Staples without violating any copyright laws.???

Thanks for letting me send a money order.Most states they are good for at least a year.Some up to 3 years.It might be a little bit before I send.You know they say life happens,well,life happened. I am enjoying reading your posts,I feel like I found a kindred spirit. I want to try all your recipes. My main cleaning oil is tree tea.But yours smell better.I just enjoy reading them so much.My 21 year old son leaves Monday for boot camp.Reading your post helps me keep my mine off of it.Hè is the first out of 6 blessing to go so far. Look forward to ordering.Have a blessed day

I ordered this over a year ago and love it! I recently lost my,downloaded copy (long story)And,tried to order it again today. However it has,not shown up in my e-mail and I think I might have done it wrong. Is there any way to check? Janie. Waco, Texas usa

HI there! Thanks for your purchase! We used to have a PDF format for sale but I had to eliminate the service because the blog is currently inactive and it was too expensive to run. At this point we are only offering the Kindle. I am so sorry! I do hope you enjoy it though! Love, JES

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